First Chemo Treatment

The first chemo treatment is history!  Thank you so much for your prayers, emails, text messages, ad infinitum……  The day couldn’t have gone any better.  I could so seriously feel the prayers.  It was amazing!  I had to blink back the tears a couple of times as I sat in the chair and thought about how peaceful and calm I was.  We all know that wasn’t “me”!  Not in my nature! One of the social workers came by and visited with me during my treatment.  When she found out it was my first one, she asked if I was nervous.  I had to tell her I wasn’t!!  That’s a tangible answer to prayer!

The steroids I had to take last night normally would have kept me awake.  (One of those pills usually keeps me awake and I had to take five!)  I slept like a baby!  All the things that have been, and could have been wrong were “all better”.  My blood pressure which runs low and has been running “lower” was almost up to where a normal person’s would be!  My heart rate which tends to run fast and has been running “faster” was just fast!  And the fluid they removed from my abdomen was put through a long list of tests to determine if it was anything bad and all tests came back good!

Thanks again to my personal nurse, chauffeur, encourager, comedian, and friend who also was with me every minute – well, except for when he went and got himself some Taco Bell!  He does have an appreciation for authentic international foods even in difficult times!

The first thought through my mind this morning was “This is the day the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it!” (Ps. 118:24)  It’s been a good day!  I know tough days are coming, but the God who gave me strength for today will give me strength for tomorrow!  Thanks again for your prayers.  They are invaluable to me!

“After you have suffered a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to his eternal glory in Christ, will himself restore, confirm, strengthen and establish you!” (I Peter 5:10)